Gain Learning Like A Girl: Educating Our Daughters In Schools Of Their Own Depicted By Diana Meehan Conveyed As Interactive EBook

lost interest in this book half way through, There's little to no valid research presented, but rather sweeping generalizations/stereotypes that are for the most part infuriating, This is more of a selfcongratulating account of how the school was started and less of why the school was started and why certain decisions were made along the way.


Meehan presents herself as a strong feminist, but her writing says otherwise, She argues that samesex schooling prevents girls from being distracted by dating, which is painfully heteronormative, She also unnecessarily uses the term 'anorexic' to describe a woman, I wasn't sure if this was a joke about how thin the woman was or if she actually felt the need to point out her eating disorder either way, it was distasteful and distinctly antifeminist.
This is really just a memoir from a woman who decided that she wanted to put her daughter in an allgirls school, and when none of the existing options fit, opted to found her own.
Still, I would have liked to see a deeper examination of samesex schooling, . . beyond rather weak assertions that girls prefer to work in groups, Then she congratulates herself and the school because a group of girls can build a robot!

I really started to lose interest when Meehan described in fair detail her efforts to secure multimillion dollar donations from Aviandrinking neighbors and then made rather passing reference to their poor hiring practices.
To her, it was

far more important to put her daughter in a makeshift school comprised of only girls than to ensure she had quality teachers,

Yet I kept reading until I got the to kicker at the end: She throws in a chapter dedicated to boys' schools and suggests that schools for boys should include some good female role models.
You know, to make sure boys learn to respect women, Yet in her girls' school, she preferred to have no male teachers or administrators, It seems she just wants to isolate her girls from "rowdy" boys who will steal their voices, As she reflects upon a graduation ceremony in which the girls solemnly cut from a cake, she even suggests that boys would have summarily destroyed the cake in their boisterous male need to move and make noise.
Reads more like a memoir than I expected, Includes fascinating research about how girls function in classrooms, both coed and same sex, This book would be interesting to anyone living in Los Angeles and interested in Archer, It gives detail as to why they founded the school and their goals, I very much enjoyed it and was surprised by the negative reviews, There are a lot of interesting books about single sex education and this is not really an argument for single sex education, If you are looking for a book about the benefits of single sex education try Boys Adrift by Leonard Sax, This book is a description of how and why the formed the school and I enjoyed it, Faced with a spirited elevenyearold daughter, a concern about what therapists have called a poisonous' youth culture especially for girlsand a conviction that parents need powerful tools to help their daughters realize their potential, educatoractivist DianaMeehan was disappointed in the selection of schools available.
So she decided along with two other mothers to create one, based on social science and brain research on how girls learn best, The result, The Archer School in L, A. , has in only ten years become a model for girls' schools nationwide, In this entertaining, inspiring book, Meehan describes her obstacleridden journey to create a new institution to serve girls first and foremost, while laying out through vivid stories and examples what girls need to thrive.
She explains why coeducation so often doesn't serve them just as it doesn't serve boys, takes sides in the controversy over male/female learning differences, and advocates for schools' role in giving girls tools to navigate through our sexualized, materialistic culture.
She also visits other schools around the countryprivate and publicto show how single sex education works, and how every girl everywhere can benefit from having a classroom of her own.
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